Butcher v. State

The plaintiff in error, Joe Butcher, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted in the district court of Okmulgee county of the crime of receiving stolen property, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of two years.

Succinctly stated, the proof on the part of the state is substantially as follows: Joe Butcher was operating a garage in the town of Beggs. He had working for him his half-brother, Sam Mizer, and his wife’s cousin, George Ranney, boys respectively of the ages of 18 and 20. A part of Butcher’s business was the dealing in of secondhand…